The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-02-18

the tradition that teaching units one for
housework; at all events my assistance
seemed not to lift the burden from her
With fathers aid I carried out plan
formed here that afternoon in May We
sent mother away with little Allie, on a
visiting tour, and took Miss McComber--
who has no home. you know-fer the sum-
mer. | hired girl for the rough work and
stood at the helm myself. | have risen
very early, and have been repaid. DO you
know how lovely the world is before sun
rise? | did not | have had a perfect
change Of work. and have found no time
to experience the 'morbidness Of purpose
less thought Mother came home well,
and the children have enjoyed the summer,
for we made 1t like picnic, with outdoor
feast and games. Father says it was bet
ter than season at Newport. Didn't go
from home at all? Oh, yes; spent one
happy week at Watch IIill.''
''Do you like honsewerk, Ruth p ask
ed Miss Osborn.
81 am interested in It; but really it is
harder than teaching. Mother has always
coddled me so that | thought | was too
tired to help at home, but now | see that
her work is more tiresome than mine''
81 think couldn't do homework, " said
Miss Osborn, ''but girls, am sure you
caunot guess what / have been doing
''You are sunburned, as brown as nut;
do look at her iands,'' said one.
''Of course I'm sunburned. | took my
sisters three boys to the seashore!'' cried
Miss Osborn, triumphantly waving the
brown hands.
''You didn't!s exclaimed Miss Green, in
credulously; ''or at all events you didn't
stay long
"a month, and happier month | never
passed. The boys had recently recovered
from whooping- cough, and their mother
was quite worn out. | forgot that l had
been teacher, and did nothing but make
merry with the children. Ny happiness
was reflected happiness, for my boys en-
joyed every moment
SIS not that the secret, after all ? Is not
all happiness reflected ?" asked Miss Sey-
mour
81 think SO, +" replied Miss Mayhem. Il
have proved it this summer for my enjoy
ment has been real, under circumstances
not conducive to contentment eyen''
Your face testities to the truth of your
statement: do tell us where you have been
Kate urged Miss Osborn.
81 have spent my summer, replied Miss
Mayhem deliberately, ION farm, five miles
from post office and railroad, in rambling,
old house occupied 10y a decrepit old
uncle and dilapidated aunt. Ihave milk
ed cows, hunted eggs, carried lunch, driven
blind old horse in crazy carryall, help
ed sew rags for a carpet, assisted in the
manufacture of soft soap, remsdeled my
aunt's wardrobe, and received attentions
from the hired man.
''You didn't enjoy it?" queried Miss
OSBORN.
Il did, | made them happy; the ruts
have been leveled, and a little sympathy
anu 4utCtlOil iidft NdIiIltQ lHtlI utdIt >
to something like life again Oh, my sum-
mer has not been wasted, and their hap
piness repays my little sacrifice. I have
said quite enough. Miss Green is the
only one left"
''No, she isn't, said Miss Small, enter
ing hurredly ''Thc war-whoop sounded,
and | was the victim, bat | want you TO
know that I still exist in another sphere.
I felt awfully when found | wasn't re-
elected. l was so perfectly wretched that
determined to act upon your theory and
secure little reflected happiness by max
ing Tom happy, and really the dear boy is
in such state of blessed bliss that my
own heart overhows. I'm looking straight
at happiness through Toms eyes. I'm
| doubt if any one has sacrificed so much
as !, or secured so much in return. Why,
I've given myself to make another happy"
GLOW absurd You are, Clara, said Miss
Seymour. you know we sympathized
with you in your disappointment, and now
We congratulate you as cordially The
love of such man as Tom makes amends
for
1.-THE loss of half-a-dozen heads, in
terrupted Clara.
''Thanks but really thought l could
never be happy again. | hope, girls, that
you may be spared such trial.
"All's well that ends well, my DEAR > re-
piled Miss Mayhem, sit might not be a
bad thing for some of us. But let MS hear
what Miss Green has to say; or would yeu
prefer to be silent, dear?"
Miss Green, sitting apart from the
others, had attracted little attention, but
now all noticed her paleness, heightened by
the black dress she wore.
Il was not allowed to choose the manner
ofspending my vacation, as You know, y she
said; ''but sick room has its uses and les
sons. have Hooked at happiness through
another's eyes, and know that it is the re-
ward of a faithful, unselfish life. | return
to my work grateful for health and
strength, and eager to improve my oppor-
tunity for doing good. fear | have been
teaching in a perfunetory way, forgetting
the more important work that lies beyond
the other the personal work, mean. sly